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The Years / Between the Acts
Original price was: $9.10.$8.00Current price is: $8.00.This volume brings together Virginia Woolf’s last two novels, The Years (1937), and Between the Acts (1941).
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The Moonstone
Original price was: $10.40.$8.00Current price is: $8.00.The Moonstone, a priceless Indian diamond which had been brought to England as spoils of war, is given to Rachel Verrinder on her eighteenth birthday. That very night, the stone is stolen. Suspicion then falls on a hunchbacked housemaid, on Rachel’s cousi
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Antony and Cleopatra
Original price was: $10.40.$8.00Current price is: $8.00.Antony and Cleopatra is one of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies: a spectacular, widely-ranging drama of love and war, passion and politics
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As You Like It
Original price was: $10.40.$8.00Current price is: $8.00.As You Like It is one of Shakespeare’s finest romantic comedies, variously lyrical, melancholy, satiric, comic and absurd.
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Henry IV Parts 1 & 2
Original price was: $10.40.$8.00Current price is: $8.00.This history play is lively in its interplay of political intrigue and boisterous comedy, subtle in the connections between high statecraft and low craftiness, exuberant in its range of vivid characters, and memorable in its thematic concern with honour,
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Henry V
Original price was: $9.10.$8.00Current price is: $8.00.Henry V is the most famous and influential of Shakespeare’s history plays. Its powerful patriotic rhetoric has resounded down the ages.
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Julius Caesar
Original price was: $10.40.$8.00Current price is: $8.00.Dealing with events surrounding the assassination of Julius Caesar in 44 B.C., the drama vividly illustrates the ways in which power and corruption are linked.
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King Lear
Original price was: $10.40.$8.00Current price is: $8.00.Love and hate, loyalty and treachery, cruelty and self-sacrifice: all these contend in a tempestuous drama which has become an enduring classic of the world’s literature.
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Measure for Measure
Original price was: $10.40.$8.00Current price is: $8.00.Although this play ends like a comedy, with reconciliations, forgiveness and marriages, it has often been regarded as one of Shakespeare’s problem plays. It shows the difficulty of effecting an appropriate balance between judicial severity and mercy, betw
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Much Ado About Nothing
Original price was: $10.40.$8.00Current price is: $8.00.This book has long been celebrated as one of Shakespeare’s popular comedies. It describes the central relationship, between Benedick and Beatrice, which is combative until love prevails.
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Othello
Original price was: $10.40.$8.00Current price is: $8.00.Desdemona’s love for Othello, the Moor, transcends racial prejudice; but the envious Iago conspires to devastate their lives. This novel renders racism, sexism, contested identities, and the savagery lurking within civilisation.
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Richard II
Original price was: $9.10.$8.00Current price is: $8.00.Richard II is one of Shakespeare’s finest works: lucid, eloquent, and boldly structured. It can be seen as a tragedy, or a historical play, or a political drama, or as one part of a vast dramatic cycle which helped to generate England’s national identity.
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Richard III
Original price was: $9.10.$8.00Current price is: $8.00.Richard III is one of the finest of Shakespeare’s historical dramas. Although it has a huge cast, Richard himself, gleefully wicked, charismatically Machiavellian, always dominates the play.
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The Merchant of Venice
Original price was: $9.10.$8.00Current price is: $8.00.Features one of Shakespeare’s most popular comedies, but it remains deeply controversial. Here, the text may well seem anti-Semitic; yet repeatedly, in performance, it has revealed a contrasting nature. Shylock, though vanquished in the law-court, often t
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The Taming of the Shrew
Original price was: $10.40.$8.00Current price is: $8.00.The Taming of the Shrew is one of the most famous and controversial of Shakespeare’s comedies.
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The Tempest
Original price was: $10.40.$8.00Current price is: $8.00.Prospero, long exiled from Italy with his daughter Miranda, seeks to use his magical powers to defeat his former enemies. Eventually, having proved merciful, he divests himself of that magic, his ‘art’, and prepares to return to the mainland.
